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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-07
MORE VAIN EFFORTS.

According to an Associated Pres!
telegram 10 this issue of THE HERALD
the "peopIe of education" of Richmond
ounty, Georgia, have "organized" tc
help along The cause of the Mormons in
that region. That is to say, the afore-
said educated people have banded to-
gether for the avowed purpose OF driv-
ing out certain Mormon elders who are
laboring as missionaries in that neigh
borhood. 1t is remarkable that ''edu-
Gated" people will not learn by the ex
perience of centuries, that violence IN
such cases is far more beneficial than
injurious to the cause sought to be
hurt. 1t is not necessary to go back a
century or a generation for illus
tration and proof of this fact.
The demonstration is occurring
every year in our own
country and especially in theTSouth
where another outrage is proposed. In
several of the Southern States within
the past decade attempts to drive
out the Mormons have been made, and
some of the elders have been brutally
logged and others murdered in cold
blood, yet, in spite OF these threats,
outrages and brutalities, the States
where they occur continue most fruit
IL fields for the PROSECUTING efforts.
Company after company of men and |
converted to the Mormon |
doctrines in the South come to Utah |
every year. The fogging of an elder is
good for a company of converts any
line, and the assassination OF mission
Try will insure train loads of new
saints. If the educated" people of
Richmond County, Georgia. have no
more convincing arguments with which
o confront the Mormon doctrines than
hickory clubs, tar and feathers and
hot guns, their education is not of a
haracter to commend itself to the in
elligent people of this generation. 1t
7ould be we'll for the humane society to
end to Georgia some histories of the
fleets of religious prosecutions and of
ttempts to prevent the spreed of creeds
y the use of weapons of violence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-07

THERE ARE in the United States over
5000 public libraries with more than
100000 volumes, but one can hardly
believe it when he reflects that nearly
half the votes in the country are thrown
for the Republican ticket.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-07

THE UTAH Commission has done what
it consistently and legally cen to give
the people an opportunity to vote on
the adoption of the proposed State
Constitution. The thanks of the friends
of Utah are due to the Commission.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-07

As THE Convention proceeds with its
work, aud the Constitution grows, and
the liberal provisions OF the instrument
are sesn the certainty of its acceptance
by Congress becomes apparent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-07

THE STATE of Utah has been a little
late, but it will get there, Eli, and don't
you forget it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-07

Rough on Piles"
Ask for Rough on Piles" Internal
and External Remedy in each package.
Sure cure, SOC. l
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-07-07

THE HERALD commends the Utah
State Constitution as it is being framed
by the Convention, and will be adopted
by the people, to the careful perusal OF
the Boston Post. On June 23d, the Post
contained this editorial paragraph
hence the commentator above:
The Mormon question is soon to come up
in q new phase, the meeting of the conven-
ton Tor the purpose of framing a Constitu-
ton preliminary to request for the admis-
sion OF Utah as State being set from one
week from to-day Constitution contain
ing no reference to pOlygamy would be
worthless, in view of the controlling i'm
portance of that question in Utah; while a
Constitution in which polygamy is prohibit
ted is unlikely to be framed By the Mormon
delegates who are to form this convention
According to the policy which guides the
deliberations OF this gathering, the future Of
Ut5h viii b. affected, as there is little doubt
that application for admission as a State,
with a Constitution excluding polygamy,
would be fayOrsbly considered.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-31
Postal Affairs in Dakota,
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 30.-The applica-
tons which are pouring ints the postof-
flee department for new offices and star
routes in Dakota will avail nothing I'M
til spring. There is an annual endeavor
on the part of the people of the terri
tories to increase their mail IA
cilities every fall and winter.
They feel the need of them more,
and vigorously knock at the doors of
the department. The present condition
of affairs renders their applications less
likely to be considered. New offices
and new routes involve additional ex-
penSeS. The postmaster general is
averSe to the work of increasing the ex-
penses of the department in any direc-
ton. His successor will be responsible
for the work of the year. All papers
are briefed and carefully filed, ready
for action. Postmaster General Dick
insOn will find matters in apple-pie
order and can attend to the work as
rapidly as pleases him. Meantime the
people must patiently wait. But, even
under ordinary circumstances, their ap-
plications would be deliberately scanned
and considered before granting them.
Sometimes it happens that rival COM
munities will ask for pOstofficeS, and,
unless the clerks are exceedingly care
full and familiar with their maps, they
vii establish two offices for what is in
reality one community.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-31
NO. 365.

was born in New York city in 1S47, and
came with his parents to Wisconsin in
1S4S. He established the Sank County
News in 1875, sold out and went South
in 1876, establishing fruit farm near
Cuthburt. Ga; was appointed county
superintendent of schools by Gov. Col
quit in 1877. Came to Dakota in 1884,
locating at Milbank. Then went to
WilmOt, in Roberts county, near which
place he has farm to which he gives
personal attention. He is editor and pro-
pretor of the Roberts County Rec ord,
published at WilmOt, and the leading
paper in the county, is clerk of the
court for that county, having been ap-
pointed by Gov. Church; is a leading
member of the alliance in that locality,
and runs his paper in the interest Of
farmers. He represented Roberts
county in the Sioux Falls constitutional
convention, and was appointed assistant
secretary of the territorial alliance at
its meeting in Huron.
A. D. CHASE,
of Watertown, is lecturer for the Da-
kOta alliance. He was born on farm
near Unity. N. H.. July %, 1880. When
fifteen years of age he left the
farm and went to Nashua. After
attending the common schools and the
Nashua Literary institute he engaged
in teaching. Settled in Vernon county.
Wisconsin, in 1855, and devoted his
time to farming and teaching. He en-
tered the ministry, joining the West
Wisconsin Methodist Episcopal confer
ence, in 1859. Retired from the ministry
in 1869, and again began farming. in
which business he has contin-
ued, except one year, when he
filled the pulpit of the Meth
odist church in Watertown, Oak.
MIR. Chase came to Dakota in 1878, and
was one of the early settlers in Coding
ton county. When the county was organ
lied he was appointed probate judge.
but refused to accept. In the Begin
ming of the alliance work in Dakota he
was elected treasurer of the Territorial
alliance, and was twice reelected to the
same position, and has three times been
elected organizer and lecturer. At the
meeting of the National Farmers alli-
Mr.. Chase was unanimously elected
national lecturer.
Z. D. SCOTT
Is treasurer of the Alliance. He was
born in CASTLE, Wyoming county, N.
Y, in 1S47. Came to Dakota in 1878
and settled on farm in Grant county,
where he has since resided. Was cleo
ted treasurer at the annual meeting of
the alliance in Mitchell in 1886, and re-
elected at the last annual meeting. Has
been identified with labor movements
since 1872; formerly a Republican, but
now acts Indifferent of either political
party. He resides near Milbank and
devOtes his attention to farming. His
picture is not shown with the group be-
cause of his refusal to furnish one of
his photographs. When he sees how
much better looking his colleagues APP
pear in print than they are IN reality
Mr.. Scott will probably be sorry that
he didn't improve the opportunity to
make handsome man of himself.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-31
AN AWKWARD DILEMMA.

Not long since one of the most faith
full coadjutors of ex-Gov. PIERCE, in an
Outburst of confidence inspired by con-
temptation of card which the man of
gilt-trimmed hat on a Northern Pacific
train had passed." asserted that that
great corporation had at its service
lobby, to be utilized at Washington, or
elsewhere, when needed, that comprised
more varied and potential elements than
had ever been commanded by any other
railroad system in the country. Names
were given of number of the highest
priced attorneys of the land-who had
been, or still are, members of one or the
other branch of the national legislature,
and not confined to one political party.
The boast was made that it was
absolutely invincible in legisla-
tive halls, both at Washington and Bis
marck, and that this bureau, while one
OF the large absorbents Of revenue, was
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-31

devised and equipped with an ability
bordering upon genius. Those familiar
with the methods in vogue at Bismarck
during the last session of the legislature
VIII not at least question the activity of
the corporation forces when it has ends
to accomplish. The campaign rhetoric
of some of the CAMPBELL divisiOniSts
as to its control of Northern sentiment
was absurd, but it does use, as it de-
Slres, many prominent newspapers
OF the territory, and its retention
OF Gen. HUGHES, the Bismarck sena-
ator in the last legislature, affords an
Illustration of its tactics. The manage
ment of the road remembered that,
when Gen. II UGHEs was attorney gen.
eral of the territory few years ago, he
prepared very exhaustive and con-
vincing legal and official opinion sus-
tanning the right of the territory to tax
railroad lands not used for the operative
purposes of the road. 1t was not pru-
dent to allow man with such facilities
for influence to hold such opinions.
Hence he was persuaded to become one
of the high priced attorneys of the road,
and now is positive that the lands held
by his employer for other than railroad
purposes are not subject to taxation. 1t
was unfortunate, however. for the gen.
tleman that the noted injunction of Mr..
BLAINE, to ''burn this in a certain
case, had not effaced from the records
the written opinion referred to. If
there were doubts in the mind of Audi
tor WARD as to his duty in the matter.
before he proceeded to enforce this tax
alton, they were relieved by the elabor-
ate and detailed legal paper of Gen.
HUGHES. He reviewed all the
points the distinguished attorney
had made, and was unable to
find ground for doubt as to
his duty. 1t was unfortunate, perhaps,
for the road. as well as its new legal
light, that it could not purchase the eX-
elusive knowledge of this very complete
Interpretation of the law applicable to
the case, and the public will naturally
give a commercial value only to the
latter opinion of Mr.. HUGHES as attor-
ney for the road. The case is noted to
illustrate something of the tactics of the
great corporation in manipulating
forces of influence. 1t may be remem-
bered that the Farmers alliance at
Huron gave special approval to the
action of Auditor WARD and Gov.
CHURCH in this matter.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-31
NOT TOTAL ABSTAINERS.

As the local option action was taken
independently in the counties that voted
on the question, and the result in one
county did not affect any other, there
has been little attempt to aggregate the
voting, but it is ROW stated as the exact
fact that sixty out of the eighty-six
organized counties submitted the ques-
ton to their voters, leaving twenty-siX
that did not vote upon the subject.
Fifty voted dry and ten wet. On the
face of this showing the conclusion is
natural and easy that on general vote
to incorporate prohibition a state con-
stitutiOn there would be a sweeping
anti-bibulous majority. But an eX-
animation of the vote in detail shows
that in very few of the coun-
ties did the dry maiorities
go above 200 to 400, and the
aggregate majority for no license in the
fifty counties is but few thousands.
1t is not SO large as TO induce the friends
of the movement to attempt to aggre-
gate and publish it as conclusive. 1t is
not designed to assert that prohibition
may not be adopted by popular vote as
a part of a state cOnStitutiOn-but the
present data are not sufficient to warrant
the assurance of aqueous enthusiasm
that the permanent policy of Dakota,
either as territory OF a state, has been
placed upon record. At the matter
now stands, ten counties have given
maiOrities against prohibition, and in
twenty-siX others the champions of alb
Stinence failed to secure One-third of
the voters to the requisite petitions to
submit the question. 1t would prOba-
bly, be fair, then, to assume that in these
twenty-SiX counties at least two-thirds
of the voters can be claSSed as against
prohibition; or to sum up, fifty counties
for prohibition and thirty-six adverse.
This summary is worth considering, in
view of the avOwed purpose of the eX-
cluSiOniStS to endeavor to carry the next
legislature in favor of a general pro-
hibitOry enactment, and to demand
place for it in the constitution of any
state that may be formed. Those who
would perpetually and everywhere in
terdict the sale of the means of internal
irrigation will perceive that their task
still has a formidable outlook. 1t is
alleged that many who favor local
option will not support a gem
eral and sweeping measure. There
are symptoms that the high-priced
Boanerges of the cause, Col. PLUMMER,
is preparing TO turn his back upon those
who have filled his pockets at the ex-
pense of his throat. This is believed to
be an imminent catastrophe by those
who have caught the muttered plead
ings of chronic appetite. The alarm bell
is touched in the interest of general
avidity that its votaries may realize that
their cOpious achievements at the ballot
box in 1887, the Bull Run of the i'm
bibers, does not insure them an Apo
mattoX in 1888 or 1889. There yet may
be large demands for coffee and dough-
OutS
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-31
FOR ONE STATE NOW.

1t has been noted that some of the
most active participants in the Aber-
deem convention were fresh men from
the ranks of the divisionists, and that a
great number of those who voted for
two states are now looking hopefully to
one, as satisfactory consummation:
but few were prepared to find Col.
PLUMMER not only placidly acquiescent
but welding his trenchant pen in the
editorial columns of the Aberdeen
News, the sturdy champion of one great
state. He has probably completed his
contract with the divis iOnists, and now
returns to his earlier and more fervent
love. 1t is another evidence of the rare
versatility of the gallant and sonorous
colonial
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-31
SHEEP IN DAKOTA.
Experiments in Raising Them
Have Proved in Every Way Sat
iSfactOry.

Have Proved in Every Way Sat
isfactOry.
Special to the Globe.
WINDSOR, Dec. 30-The opening of
the winter season finds the sheep inouS-
try in this vicinity rapidly on the in
crease. The j. LamSOn sheep ranch
near this station now numbers over
1000 head. The animals are i'll the best
condition, free from foot rot or other
disastrous diseases. and have album
dainty proven profitable investment to
their owner. Three years ago the eX-
pertinent of raising sheep here was I'M
dertaken and 225 head of sheep brought
from Michigan. The Shropshire Downs
were the breed selected, land have proven
the wisdom of the selection. The receipts
from the clippings alone this year is a
big income in itself. The animals av r
aged eight pounds of wool per head.
This was sold in Minneapolis at 20 cents
per pound, or SLIGO per ht al average for
the flock. The increase for the year has
been 50 per cent. Next year a neigh
boring stock man, Frank Jandell, al
ready large stock raiser. proposes to
start band of 5000 sheep. The La
son herd is protected in winter by sheds
400 feet long and thirty-fOur feet wide,
double boarded and tar papered. The
problem of raising sheep at profit in
Dakota, like raising wheat at profit at
the ruling prices, is solved beyond a
question. The only loss of any conse-
quence this past year was by fierce
prairie fire this fall, in which thirty head
were DESTROYED.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-31

The Prohibition party, as a political
organization padding It's own canoe
through the watery elements, has not
heretofore made its appearance in Da
kOta, but the voting done on the Sth of
\ ovcmber has inspirited that persua-
sion. and it now proposes TO come tie the
front and fall in line with the ST.
JOINS, FISKs and good ladies who
form that following in the states. A
convention has been called in South
Dakota. and a good beginning will be
made next month for the national cam
paign. No doubt, the North will fall in
line in proper time. This movement
can easily be commended from various
points of view. There is no good
reason why so grand territory, knock
ing hopefully at the door of the
Union, should not have a share in all
the good things there are afiOat-and
certainly prohibition politics is good
thing-at least for its ST. JOINS, PLUM
MERs and other high-priced evangelists.
If there is woman suffrage or any
other sort of a political side show On the
general parade grounds, Dakota ought
TO have at least small, soft hand in it.
1t has been intimated that this element
will materialize the coming year, but its
dOgmas will most likely be adopted by
the cold water party, and the two
merged. Be that as it may, generous
encouragement should be given this
Prohibition party in Dakota, if it
has the courage to cut loose
from the big parties and re-
lieve them of all responsibility for the
protection of its arid hobby. No doubt
both of the old parties will be willing to
cOnsign to its custody all the questions
growing out of local option. This may
provide ample scope for their activities.
They proclaim that there is no other
issue in political affairs current for
which they have any concern, except to
regulate popular beverages and curtail
the opportunities for pernicious gratifica-
ton of perverSe appetites. Why, then,
should they not stand alOOf and frame
their own shibbOleth? They cannot
rely upon claims of friend
ship by the Republican party. In
Dakota that party has had
the larger share of the anti-temperance
vote in its lines, and whatever profess
siOns it may make it cannot be depend
ed upon to do the work demanded by
the men of the single idea-and of
course they would lot look to the DEM
Ocratie party for support. As matter
of consistency, then, and unmiXed devO-
ton to principle, the prOhibitiOnistS of
the territory should stand as a separate
party and run their own candidates for
the legislature and congress in OppOsi-
ton to both Republicans and Demo-
Gratis. Judging from the voting of this
faction in the states, they might not be
able to elect many people to positions,
but that is minor consideration where
lofty allegiance to principle is the
chief aim-they would thus escape re-
spOnsibility for the acts of officials. OF
course the Republicans would be glad
to be relieved of an impracticable eIe-
ment, and the Democrats would most
cheerfully see them reduce the voting
power of their old antagonist. A live
and aggressive prohibition political
party is evidently one of the needs of
Dakota.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-31
Men Whose CountenanceS
Give Evidence of Force Of
Character and Ability.
President LouckS and MeSSrS.
Chase, Fancher, Soderberg,
Harden and Ashton.
Treasurer Scott Never Had
His Picture Took and
Never Intends To.

Speclal 10 tlc UlODe.
HURON, Dec. 29.-The Dakota Farm
ers' alliance grew from suggestion by
w. f. I. Bushnell. publisher of the Da-
kota Farmer, who, aided by few farm
ers in the vicinity of Huron, got together
and organized an alliance. This was in
the fall of 1884. At that time there was
no competition in the wheat market in
South Dakota, and farmers were entire
ly at the mercy of few grain buyers,
who paid just as little as posi-
BILE for grain, and were extor-
tionate in dOckage, etc. Complaints
We're so numerous that it was deter
mined to make a concentrated move
ment for a free market. A Getting
was called here Dee. 10, 1884, and hun
dreds of farmers responded. An Or
ganiZatiOn was effected, officers elected
and work began. Farmers made de-
mand, for cars in which to ship their
own grain. The progress made was
slow, yet it may be truthfully said that
those who have been identified with the
movement from the first are the
most enthusiastic and apprecia i've
of the work accomplished. At the annual
meeting held in WatertOwn in January,
1885, the secretary, Mr.. Bushnell, pre-
sented plan for the establishment of
departments of work and the selection
of a superintendent for each depart
ment, whose duty it would be to furnish
information from time to time to local
organizations, with such suggestions as
might be deemed helpful to all. This
suggestion was adopted, and as result
dozens of warehouses, elevators and
mills sprang up, all fostered and pat
r0niZed by the local organizations of
farmers. This advanced the price of
grain; Irvine took drop of nearly 80
per cent; farm machinery was leSSened
i'll price, and other articles needed by
the farmer was purchased at reduced
figures. More recently Il farmers hail
insurance company was organized, and
has done good business. Steps are
now being taken for the incorporation
of a purchasing department, with evil
dences of success. In short, the whole
alliance movement may be said to mark
an era in the prosperity of the farmers
of the Northwest, and especially in
Dakota. The alliance has created
among farmers a feeling of indie
pendence, and has furnished occasion
for new thought and action that has
benefited. every member of the Organi-
cation and had a good effect upon the
public generally.